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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Banshee

The Irish Supernatural Death-Messenger

by Patricia Lysaght

The standard scholarly study of the banshee, based on hundreds of accounts in the archives of the Irish Folklore Commission. Lysaght maps the regional names and forms of the belief and argues that the banshee is best understood as a supernatural keening woman.

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